Chapter 5
Lots of things to talk about now. Well I went out with Ashley again, this time we went horse back ridding on her ranch. I felt very awkward around her, but attempted not to let it show.
Queen Isabelle agreed to let Harry take me to Norway, although Susan objected many many times. Saying that I wasn't quite ready yet, and that I still needed training. Isabelle let this go in one ear and out the other. She told her that this was not a buisness trip, but more of a reward for putting up with so much. I don't know if Susan found the hidden message in it, that she ment I had to put up with Susan, but I did.
So I was packed and ready, we left Tuesday night. I expected that were we takeing a regular air plain there, but found out that we would be flying in our own private jet. Very fancy I guess. The flight was going to be about 2 hours long.
Like I mentiond befor, I hate flying, so I was kinda a reck when we boarded. The plain was gorgeuous though. When you walked in there were nice plus couches in front, and then farher to to the back there were 2 rows of 3 recliner chiars equipped with seat belts. There was a wall right next to the door, and beyond it was the cock pit. And behind the chiars was a bathroom, with shower, why you'd need one is beyond me. And then beyond that was a little bedroom with a queen size bed. We didn't go underneath, but there was a kitchen, and all the stoarge, so Harry tells me.
I sat down on one of the luxurious chairs, and immediately buckeld up. Harry, takeing his time joined me.
"What are you nervous?" He snickerd.
"Yea, got a problome with that?" I shot back, takeing a deep breath in and letting it out in a deep sigh. He tried to calm me down a bit by telling me that private plans rarley crash.. not too reasureing. Then he asked again.
"So, you talked to her didn't you?" umm.. yes, but i'm not telling you! A weird look fell over my face, and he knew exactly why.
"I'm sorry, it just didn't come up again..."
"Fine, i'll just ask her out my self.. I don't need to know, it's almost obvious that she likes me.." he thought for a moment. "Maybe i'll just call her right now and ask.. to get it over with." I could tell that he was upset with me, and was hopeing that he was jokeing about calling her right now. But he wasn't. He pulled his cell out of his pocket and began to dial.
"NO!" I grabbed the phone from his hand and turned it off.
"What are you doing?" demanded Harry.
"I can't let you do it.." damn, I was going to have to tell him now.. but how? He wont want to speak to me the whole time we're gone!
"And why not?"
"Because.." I hesitated.. ok, swift and painless.. more like painfull. He looked at me as if to say "go on.." I took in another deep breath.. "Because she dosn't like you." There, it's out.. and maube he'll just except it and I wont have to explain..
"What? how do you know?" Damn..
"Becuase she told me.." I said guiltily
"When?" He wanted to know.
"The first time we went out," my voice was low and mumbled, I felt so horrible for not telling him befor, but it was just so mean, and he realy liked her, for some odd reason. He didn't say anything for a minute, then he cleard his throat and very calmly spoke.
"Why did you tell me befor?" his voice was flat and shrill.
"Becuase, I didn't want to hurt you, I knew how much you liked her, and then it turns out that she was only your friend was to be around William.." oopps, I ment to keep that part a secret. Me and my big mouth..they should just remove me voice box, the whole world would benfit from it. His eyes went blank, there was a sighn of disbilife in them.
"No," he said, "No, thats not true, your lieing." I think he was holding back tears, but with guys, you can never tell.
"I wouldn't lie to you." I can't belive that he thought I would. But I didn't get mad, I knew that this was hard for him.
"She told you that she was useing me to get to my brother?" I nodded sympathticly.
"Not in those exact words, but thats the gist." This time a tear did roll down his cheek. I leaned in and hugged him. I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do, but when he held me back, I felt that it was.
"I'm sorry, I know what this feels like.. Well kinda, I had a boy friend who actuly only liked comeing over to my house to see my mom.." I shudderd. "That one still gives me nightmears." that got a laugh out of him. I would laugh too, except it wasn't a story, this actuly happend to me. He pulled away from me, and whiped to few tars away.
"Thank you." He smiled. The whole time this was going on I hadn't noticed that we had taken off and were flying about 6,000 miles above the ocean now. The rest of the flight was mostly silent. I think he needed some time to work stuff out in his head.
* * *
Norway is a very beautiful country, we didn't get to see much of it though. We just went from the air port to a ski lodge. The drive was better the flight. He actuly talked to me.
"I think your waisting your time treying to teach me.." I explained.
"And why do you think that?" Harry disputed.
"Becuase, I'm not very cordinated, I mean you should hear Susan, she tells me that I'm about as cordinated as a donkey." I claimed
"What's that supossed to mean?"
"I don't know for sure, but she tells me that I need to walk properly, or i'll embarris my country." Harry let out a disbaleaveing noise.
"You shouldn't listen to her, she dosn't know what shes talking about." He said sweetly, "It's not the walking part thats embarrising. I mean you have to count the dialouge, and attitude too." He teased me.
"What is wrong with my attitude?"
"Well it's just that you are too nice.." He justified.
"What is wrong with that?" He then explained that anyone belonging to the Royal familie have some type of attitudes, and they never are nice. He also explained that I can't be so sweet in public, or else people will walk all over me. I never knew that beinf nice was a bad thing.. well I guess theres a lot I need to learn about this royalty thing.
The car pulled up in front of a loge. Frank, the driver opend to door for us, I stepped out, there was snow on the ground in layres of 3 feet. The air was crisp. The smell of pine swormed the air, I shiverd when a chilling wind passed us by. Goosbumbs popped up all over my body, I hugged myself to keep warm. Harry noticed this, and offerd me his black North Face fleece Jacket. I took it without questuion.
"I told you it would be cold up here." He kidded. I thought I was dressed for cold. I was waering jeans and a long sleeve reb blouse. Thankfully I packed alot warmer clothes for when we get on the actull mountians.
The lobby was very inviteing, there was a enormus fireplace on the lft back fall, with a fire blazeing in it. There were many couches that were occupied with guests reading, or engageing in light conversation. As we walked past, people stared a bit, I think they reconized Harry more then they did me. He went to the front desk, where a man in this late thirties stood sipping coffee. He perked up when Harry approached him acompined by his body gaurd Al. Al was a very larg man, with a very stern look that was emplanted on his face permently. He was always dressed in a black suit, and waering dark sunglasses. He's not very inconspicuous.
They talked for a moment. I looked around the plaza, then I looked over to Mike, my bodygaurd, who was checking out some swedish girl sipping a martini at the bar. He wasn't quite as big as Al, he was built nice though. He had a cute face for an older man. I don't know exaclty how old he is, he never gives me a strait asnwer when I ask. I think he's about 36.
"Hot babe over there?" I asked, he looked back at me as if he was shocked. "Common, i'm 16, i'm not blind."
"Well, I was just looking, nothing wrnog with looking." He's rely cool guy, I tries to be severe, but I always know how to make him laugh and open up.
Harry and Al came back, he was holding 2 keys. "We're all ready." He anounced. He handed me one Key, and then guided me to our rooms. At least I thought it was 2 rooms. Turns out, we're shareing the presidential suit. It has 2 seprate bedrooms in it, so it's not like we're going to shareing a bed, but it's still kinda weird.
The room was bigger then my room back at the palce, when you walked in there was a liveing room set up, with 2 couches, and one love seat, in front of them was a large screen T.V. To the right was a bar, i'm guessing tha's off limits to us.
Next to that was a room leading to a normal size bedroom, wih queen size bed, a T.V. and a nightside table. Harry called that room, since it was the closest and he didn't have to walk to the other one. Men can be so lazy! Across from his room was my room, it was the same get up. There was also a pool table that was centerd in the middle of the room, and behind it was a kitchenette thing.
"Hmm, not too shabby." I commented.
"What time is it?" Harry asked me,
"Well my watch says that it's 4 o'clock, but thats England time." I searched around for a clock. "Ah, it's 5:30."
"Well, it's too late to hit the slopes, but how bout just oing out and enjoying the snow?" Harry invited me. I thought for a moment,
"Sounds great! Let me get changed." The bell boy had just finished putting my luggage in my room. Mike was takeing care of the tip, as me and Harry diaspeared into our rooms. I noticed that I was still wearing Harry's coat, I took it off, and walked it over to his room. I didn't bother to knock, witch was a dumb idea.
"Heres your coat-" I froze, and slammed the door, he was praticly naked. Right as I opend the door, he was putting on his boxers..luckly he was faceing awy from me, so I only saw his butt. I turned around, and couldn't help but giggle. The door opend, his hand popped out, I placed the coat in it, and walked off, blushing the whole time.
I kept my jeans on, but replaced my blouse with a black turtle neck, and over that I put a white and pink roxy sweat shirt over it. I looked out the window, and the snow was comeing down in buckets. I would need my scarf and gloves, so I began to rummage through all my bags. I brought 3 bags for only 3 nights.. you never know what you'll need up here. Eventually I found my pink knitted scarf, when I pulled my gloves out, my black ear warmer fell out too. I thought for a second and determinded that I should take it too.
I walked out into the warm liveing area, Harry was wating for me. "Are you quite ready?" He asked in a slightly anoyed tone.
"Yes," I said walking to the door with him. RIght as we approached the door, I leanend over to him and wisperd. "Nice white ass!" I giggled, and ran off to the elavator. He ran after me. Thenkfully the elavator was up so I got in beofr him, and shut the door befor her reached it.
I walked hastily through the lobby, and out to the front. To my left was a large snow bank, so I hid behind it. When Harry ran out the door looking for me, I jumped out, knocking him to the snow. I knelt down over him.
"What can't take complements?" He grabbed a pile of snow and shoved it in my face. I screamed, and whipped it away. This resulted in a huge snow ball fight between the 2 of us. Al and Mike just stood by the door and silently cheered one of us on.
Once we gave up, and deceassed fire, we were both soaking wet. But neither of us cared, we were filled with laughter and bliss. "Well, how about we finish off this night with a cup of hot choclate infront of the fire?" Harry suggested. I accepted.
"This is it right? I think he's going to mkae his move! Everything is right, a drink in front of the fire, thats the sure sighn love..YES!" So we went back to the room, and got changed, both into our pj's. He looked very nice in redish flannle pants and a white tee. I just put on a pair of yellow cotton pants and a white long sleeve hooded shirt.
There we were sitting in front of glowing fire, the lights were off, both sipping our drinks. I looked over into his eyes, the reflection of the fire was clear as day. He loked back at me, and opend his mouth to speak.
"I had a great time today!" He started.. this is it!! "And.." he paused, yes.. "I think i'm ready for bed." He got up streched, said goodnight, and vanished into his room. Shot down again! Am I the only one that sees the chemistry between us? URG! It frustrates me so much!
Well the next day we awoke around 7:00, and immediatley hit the slopes.. litterly. I was falling constantly. Susan was right, I have aboslutley no cordination.
"Ok, I realy don't think i'm cut out for this whole snowboarding thing.." I complained after 3 hours of getting up and falling.
"Yes you are, you just need to get more practice in." Harry laughed. I gave him a sarcastic smile and rubbed my sore butt. I positioned myself at the top of this tiny hill. Serioulsy it was practicly flat. I took in a deep breath and tried again. I was going well for about a minute or so, I heard Harry behind me cheering me on. And then just as I was almost at the bottum, a face planted. Snow isn't that cushioning when you get it at full speed.
"Ouch!" Harry boared down to me and helped me up. "That looked like it hurt." Thankfully he reserved this part of the mountian for just us, I didn't need reporters watching me. I can just see a picture of me with my face in the snow with the headline. "Princess Alexandria gives no hope in being a world leader when she can't even stand on her own."
I spat out a pice of snow, and whiped it from my face. "Ow..." Was all I could say.
"Ok, I think it bout time we get some lunch." I nodded in agreement, and followed him back to the lodge limping all the way.
The rest of the trip was unsucessfull in more ways then one. First I barley learned to stay up for more then 3 minutes, Harry wouldn't stop laughing at me, and everytime I thought that something would happen between us, it didn't! I think I just need to move on now, face the fact Alex, nothing is ever going to happen between us. He's a lost cause. And I bet there are alot of other guys out there that are perfectly fine, and willing to date me.
Yes, there are other fish in the sea! But none like him, and plus, Harry's a prince too! That would make things soo much eaiser on me and on both of us. We both have demanding scehduals, and wont have to give up the throan if we want to get married to a "commener" as they call the non royals. Ah! Ok, this is the end of this entry, I need to go make my self hate Harry!
* * *
Well another month has gone by. I haven't had alot of time to write, I've been way too busy. First one of my cousins.. I think her name was Anna, got married, and I was one of the brides maids, witch makes no sence to me seeing as if I had never met her befor. But anways, We went over to Scottland for the ceremony, we stayed there for a week.
It is a very beautiful country. I even met this guy, he was some important guys son, his name was Patrick. Realy cute, he was 17. We hung out alot of the time. He even kissed me. It was amazeing, but the whole time I couldn't get my mind off Harry. How pathtic is that, I mean here I am with a realy hot, sweet guy that likes me, and all I can think about is Harry. He asked me out, but I had to turn him down.
Ok, I know what your thinking, wasn't I the one earlier telling my self to get over Harry. Well I was, but Pat lives in Whales, I tottaly can not deal with a lond distance realtionship, plus, what if when I got home, Harry said that he missed me, and never wanted to leave my side again.. OK well it's far fetched, but a girl can dream can't she?
Anyways, the next week was was my last week of summer. So I tried liveing it up as much as possible. I finaly got my liscens, and bought a car. Well more of an SUV. I have always wanted a Chevy Blazor, a gold one at that. And I finaly bought one! I drive every where now, It's kinda weird though. Back home where Iearned, it was on the right side of the road, now I have to change to the left. And I still catch my self going around to the other side thinking its the drivers seat.
I drive everywhere now, I never take the limo anymore. I feel that it attracts too many people. But I do have to have a flag attached to the back "so you can go and park anywhere you want" as my mom discribes. I realy don't care about good parking, but I guess I have to.
Me and Harry went to the beach again the other day, this time it was only us two. We had a great time, untill Harry thougt it would be funny to dunk me in the water with my clothes on..He's going to pay for that one!
Well now, here I am sitting in my dorm room, as they call it here at St. Kathrines. It's ok here, but all the girls are way to prepy for my taste. There is one girl who's pretty nice though. Brooke, the other girls mock her because the only reason she's here is that she was picked for the scholarship. So she's not ritch, and fir some reason the other girls don't like that.
We hang out anytime we get, but our schedual is very demading, we wake at 6, breakfeast is at 6:20, and then classes start at 6:50. They go untill 4:30, and then after that we have about 2 hours of "dorm work" as we call it. So realy we don't have much free time.
The school is in Leeds, England, witch is about 3 hours away from London. I haven't gone back home yet, I am starting to miss everyone. But I miss Kris and Lizzie even more.
* * *
"Princess," Harry started, bowing slightly, lifting my hand and kissing it. "Always a pleasure!" I then half curtsied to acknowlage him.
We are both home from the weekend. "How is your new school working out for you?" He asked as they strolled through the gardens.
"I don't know, it's school, am I supossed to like it?" I answerd quickly.
"So, I take it it's not going to well.." He prosumed right.
"Well, lets see, out of 1000 girls there, I have one friend, count them, ONE friend!" I responded defensively, then began to walk faster to avoid the subject. Harry sighed slightly and quicked his own pace to keep up with me.
"Wow, that sucks, are you saying that no one likes you or something.." He winced at his horrible choice of words.
"No, i'm saying that they all like me, but only beacuse of who I am. They are always asking me questions like, 'Whats Harry like in person' or 'What's William like?' it's soo anoying, they don't care about me, they care that I know you."
"They realy ask about me?" He asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice. I nodded, he thought for moment, "Well what do you say to them?"
"I tell them that you pick your nose all the time, and you stutter!"I joked, then began to run since Harry was now chaseing me. He eventually caught up with me, put his arms around me and pulled me to the grass, that was still damp from the morning dew. He was now straddling me, and tickling me.
"Did you realy say that?" He demanded.
"N-noo!" I spat out between fits of laughter. He stopped tickling me, and let me sit up, but he was still holding me down.
"Then what did you say to them?" I took in a deep breath, and then responded.
"I told them that you were a amazeingi friend, a great listener, and an all arounf wonderful person." his face went serious.
"Realy.." Harry asked in disbelief,
"Yea, what, was I wrong?" I kidded. He was quite for a second.
"Well all that applies to you and more!" He then leaned in to me, this was it! I thought, he was finaly going to kiss me! My dreams are comeing true!
Yea, again I was wrong! He did kiss me, but on the forehead, then he got up and helped me up too. We then proceeded to the palace in silence.
"There you are!" mom said a little worried. "Where were you two?"
"We were just walking through the gardens.." I explained, I then grabbed Harry by the arm and said, "And now we are going up to my room!" I thus pulled him up to my room.
"What was that about.." Questioned Harry smoothing out this shirt sleeve where I was holding on.
"Nothig, It's just she would then start questioning us, and crap, and I realy don't want to deal with that right now." I lied. I was a little upset about the whole kiss thing, and was trying hard not to show it. But Harry saw right through it.
"Yea, ok.. somethings bothering you, whats the matter?"
"Nothing, I'm just irritated thats all.." Ok, good Alex, now you have to come up with a reason why you are aggitated. Ok think think!
"How come.." Why does he have to be such a good friend, and a great listener.. why can't he just stutter and pick his nose? Well he sat down on the couch located at the end of my bed, and waited for an answer.
"Because.." I paused.. then It came to me. "Because no one likes me-"
"What are you talking about, everyone loves you.." He interupted.. and he was wrong, he dosn't love me!
"No, they love Princess Alexandria, thats who they all want to be friends with, not Alex. Alex is boreing, no one cares that Alex was a strait A student, and came in 2 in the statewide gymnastics compatiton.." Ok, this is good!
"No one cares that I was lead in the school plays both freshmen and sophmore year! All they care about is that I'm a stupid princess, I have money, I live in a palace, and that I know you!" I got a little too into this, cuz after my speech, I had tears welling up in my eyes. All this was true, but I never realy tld anyone, and I tried not to let it get to me.
"Is all that true?" He asked, motioning for me to sit next to him.
"Oh, so i'm a liar now?" I accedently demanded.
"NO! I mean, no, just all that stuff is very cool! And no one realy knows that about you so they can't like you for it!" He's not the best at cheering people up.. hmm thats a fault I can talk about to anyone he asks!
"Well what am I going to do, go up to the next person I meet and say, "Hi, I'm Princess Alexandria, i'm not only royalty, but I'm A student who can act and is flexible?" He laughed slightly, but when he noticed the serious look on my face, he smartend up.
"Well, not in those words I guess.."
"Your not helping any!" i pouted like a stupid child.
"Well, the reason I like you isn't because of the Princess you, but because of who I met in the coffee shop. Someone who isn't all perfect, who falls down a few times, but isn't afraid to get back up and face another day. Don't let all the other girls at that stupid snob school let you think that you are nothing but a crown! You are a person, a beautiful, intellegent, talented.. and flexible person!"
I was shocked, I didn't know what to say. I seriously had tears in my eyes.. This would be the perfect time to kiss him, but like that would ever happen. I'm just his friend. But then again, haveing him as a friend could be way better then haveing him as a boy friend.. I know that it's crazy, but think about it, this way I never ahd to be scared to say something wrong, and to look at another guy.
So that was it, that was the time that I finaly accepted that I was only going to be friends with Harry, and nothing else, and I was tottaly ok with it! I was happy, Harry was my friend, we could talk about anything, he gave me great advice, and I can do the same for him... if he ever asks me that is.
Lots of things to talk about now. Well I went out with Ashley again, this time we went horse back ridding on her ranch. I felt very awkward around her, but attempted not to let it show.
Queen Isabelle agreed to let Harry take me to Norway, although Susan objected many many times. Saying that I wasn't quite ready yet, and that I still needed training. Isabelle let this go in one ear and out the other. She told her that this was not a buisness trip, but more of a reward for putting up with so much. I don't know if Susan found the hidden message in it, that she ment I had to put up with Susan, but I did.
So I was packed and ready, we left Tuesday night. I expected that were we takeing a regular air plain there, but found out that we would be flying in our own private jet. Very fancy I guess. The flight was going to be about 2 hours long.
Like I mentiond befor, I hate flying, so I was kinda a reck when we boarded. The plain was gorgeuous though. When you walked in there were nice plus couches in front, and then farher to to the back there were 2 rows of 3 recliner chiars equipped with seat belts. There was a wall right next to the door, and beyond it was the cock pit. And behind the chiars was a bathroom, with shower, why you'd need one is beyond me. And then beyond that was a little bedroom with a queen size bed. We didn't go underneath, but there was a kitchen, and all the stoarge, so Harry tells me.
I sat down on one of the luxurious chairs, and immediately buckeld up. Harry, takeing his time joined me.
"What are you nervous?" He snickerd.
"Yea, got a problome with that?" I shot back, takeing a deep breath in and letting it out in a deep sigh. He tried to calm me down a bit by telling me that private plans rarley crash.. not too reasureing. Then he asked again.
"So, you talked to her didn't you?" umm.. yes, but i'm not telling you! A weird look fell over my face, and he knew exactly why.
"I'm sorry, it just didn't come up again..."
"Fine, i'll just ask her out my self.. I don't need to know, it's almost obvious that she likes me.." he thought for a moment. "Maybe i'll just call her right now and ask.. to get it over with." I could tell that he was upset with me, and was hopeing that he was jokeing about calling her right now. But he wasn't. He pulled his cell out of his pocket and began to dial.
"NO!" I grabbed the phone from his hand and turned it off.
"What are you doing?" demanded Harry.
"I can't let you do it.." damn, I was going to have to tell him now.. but how? He wont want to speak to me the whole time we're gone!
"And why not?"
"Because.." I hesitated.. ok, swift and painless.. more like painfull. He looked at me as if to say "go on.." I took in another deep breath.. "Because she dosn't like you." There, it's out.. and maube he'll just except it and I wont have to explain..
"What? how do you know?" Damn..
"Becuase she told me.." I said guiltily
"When?" He wanted to know.
"The first time we went out," my voice was low and mumbled, I felt so horrible for not telling him befor, but it was just so mean, and he realy liked her, for some odd reason. He didn't say anything for a minute, then he cleard his throat and very calmly spoke.
"Why did you tell me befor?" his voice was flat and shrill.
"Becuase, I didn't want to hurt you, I knew how much you liked her, and then it turns out that she was only your friend was to be around William.." oopps, I ment to keep that part a secret. Me and my big mouth..they should just remove me voice box, the whole world would benfit from it. His eyes went blank, there was a sighn of disbilife in them.
"No," he said, "No, thats not true, your lieing." I think he was holding back tears, but with guys, you can never tell.
"I wouldn't lie to you." I can't belive that he thought I would. But I didn't get mad, I knew that this was hard for him.
"She told you that she was useing me to get to my brother?" I nodded sympathticly.
"Not in those exact words, but thats the gist." This time a tear did roll down his cheek. I leaned in and hugged him. I wasn't sure if it was the right thing to do, but when he held me back, I felt that it was.
"I'm sorry, I know what this feels like.. Well kinda, I had a boy friend who actuly only liked comeing over to my house to see my mom.." I shudderd. "That one still gives me nightmears." that got a laugh out of him. I would laugh too, except it wasn't a story, this actuly happend to me. He pulled away from me, and whiped to few tars away.
"Thank you." He smiled. The whole time this was going on I hadn't noticed that we had taken off and were flying about 6,000 miles above the ocean now. The rest of the flight was mostly silent. I think he needed some time to work stuff out in his head.
* * *
Norway is a very beautiful country, we didn't get to see much of it though. We just went from the air port to a ski lodge. The drive was better the flight. He actuly talked to me.
"I think your waisting your time treying to teach me.." I explained.
"And why do you think that?" Harry disputed.
"Becuase, I'm not very cordinated, I mean you should hear Susan, she tells me that I'm about as cordinated as a donkey." I claimed
"What's that supossed to mean?"
"I don't know for sure, but she tells me that I need to walk properly, or i'll embarris my country." Harry let out a disbaleaveing noise.
"You shouldn't listen to her, she dosn't know what shes talking about." He said sweetly, "It's not the walking part thats embarrising. I mean you have to count the dialouge, and attitude too." He teased me.
"What is wrong with my attitude?"
"Well it's just that you are too nice.." He justified.
"What is wrong with that?" He then explained that anyone belonging to the Royal familie have some type of attitudes, and they never are nice. He also explained that I can't be so sweet in public, or else people will walk all over me. I never knew that beinf nice was a bad thing.. well I guess theres a lot I need to learn about this royalty thing.
The car pulled up in front of a loge. Frank, the driver opend to door for us, I stepped out, there was snow on the ground in layres of 3 feet. The air was crisp. The smell of pine swormed the air, I shiverd when a chilling wind passed us by. Goosbumbs popped up all over my body, I hugged myself to keep warm. Harry noticed this, and offerd me his black North Face fleece Jacket. I took it without questuion.
"I told you it would be cold up here." He kidded. I thought I was dressed for cold. I was waering jeans and a long sleeve reb blouse. Thankfully I packed alot warmer clothes for when we get on the actull mountians.
The lobby was very inviteing, there was a enormus fireplace on the lft back fall, with a fire blazeing in it. There were many couches that were occupied with guests reading, or engageing in light conversation. As we walked past, people stared a bit, I think they reconized Harry more then they did me. He went to the front desk, where a man in this late thirties stood sipping coffee. He perked up when Harry approached him acompined by his body gaurd Al. Al was a very larg man, with a very stern look that was emplanted on his face permently. He was always dressed in a black suit, and waering dark sunglasses. He's not very inconspicuous.
They talked for a moment. I looked around the plaza, then I looked over to Mike, my bodygaurd, who was checking out some swedish girl sipping a martini at the bar. He wasn't quite as big as Al, he was built nice though. He had a cute face for an older man. I don't know exaclty how old he is, he never gives me a strait asnwer when I ask. I think he's about 36.
"Hot babe over there?" I asked, he looked back at me as if he was shocked. "Common, i'm 16, i'm not blind."
"Well, I was just looking, nothing wrnog with looking." He's rely cool guy, I tries to be severe, but I always know how to make him laugh and open up.
Harry and Al came back, he was holding 2 keys. "We're all ready." He anounced. He handed me one Key, and then guided me to our rooms. At least I thought it was 2 rooms. Turns out, we're shareing the presidential suit. It has 2 seprate bedrooms in it, so it's not like we're going to shareing a bed, but it's still kinda weird.
The room was bigger then my room back at the palce, when you walked in there was a liveing room set up, with 2 couches, and one love seat, in front of them was a large screen T.V. To the right was a bar, i'm guessing tha's off limits to us.
Next to that was a room leading to a normal size bedroom, wih queen size bed, a T.V. and a nightside table. Harry called that room, since it was the closest and he didn't have to walk to the other one. Men can be so lazy! Across from his room was my room, it was the same get up. There was also a pool table that was centerd in the middle of the room, and behind it was a kitchenette thing.
"Hmm, not too shabby." I commented.
"What time is it?" Harry asked me,
"Well my watch says that it's 4 o'clock, but thats England time." I searched around for a clock. "Ah, it's 5:30."
"Well, it's too late to hit the slopes, but how bout just oing out and enjoying the snow?" Harry invited me. I thought for a moment,
"Sounds great! Let me get changed." The bell boy had just finished putting my luggage in my room. Mike was takeing care of the tip, as me and Harry diaspeared into our rooms. I noticed that I was still wearing Harry's coat, I took it off, and walked it over to his room. I didn't bother to knock, witch was a dumb idea.
"Heres your coat-" I froze, and slammed the door, he was praticly naked. Right as I opend the door, he was putting on his boxers..luckly he was faceing awy from me, so I only saw his butt. I turned around, and couldn't help but giggle. The door opend, his hand popped out, I placed the coat in it, and walked off, blushing the whole time.
I kept my jeans on, but replaced my blouse with a black turtle neck, and over that I put a white and pink roxy sweat shirt over it. I looked out the window, and the snow was comeing down in buckets. I would need my scarf and gloves, so I began to rummage through all my bags. I brought 3 bags for only 3 nights.. you never know what you'll need up here. Eventually I found my pink knitted scarf, when I pulled my gloves out, my black ear warmer fell out too. I thought for a second and determinded that I should take it too.
I walked out into the warm liveing area, Harry was wating for me. "Are you quite ready?" He asked in a slightly anoyed tone.
"Yes," I said walking to the door with him. RIght as we approached the door, I leanend over to him and wisperd. "Nice white ass!" I giggled, and ran off to the elavator. He ran after me. Thenkfully the elavator was up so I got in beofr him, and shut the door befor her reached it.
I walked hastily through the lobby, and out to the front. To my left was a large snow bank, so I hid behind it. When Harry ran out the door looking for me, I jumped out, knocking him to the snow. I knelt down over him.
"What can't take complements?" He grabbed a pile of snow and shoved it in my face. I screamed, and whipped it away. This resulted in a huge snow ball fight between the 2 of us. Al and Mike just stood by the door and silently cheered one of us on.
Once we gave up, and deceassed fire, we were both soaking wet. But neither of us cared, we were filled with laughter and bliss. "Well, how about we finish off this night with a cup of hot choclate infront of the fire?" Harry suggested. I accepted.
"This is it right? I think he's going to mkae his move! Everything is right, a drink in front of the fire, thats the sure sighn love..YES!" So we went back to the room, and got changed, both into our pj's. He looked very nice in redish flannle pants and a white tee. I just put on a pair of yellow cotton pants and a white long sleeve hooded shirt.
There we were sitting in front of glowing fire, the lights were off, both sipping our drinks. I looked over into his eyes, the reflection of the fire was clear as day. He loked back at me, and opend his mouth to speak.
"I had a great time today!" He started.. this is it!! "And.." he paused, yes.. "I think i'm ready for bed." He got up streched, said goodnight, and vanished into his room. Shot down again! Am I the only one that sees the chemistry between us? URG! It frustrates me so much!
Well the next day we awoke around 7:00, and immediatley hit the slopes.. litterly. I was falling constantly. Susan was right, I have aboslutley no cordination.
"Ok, I realy don't think i'm cut out for this whole snowboarding thing.." I complained after 3 hours of getting up and falling.
"Yes you are, you just need to get more practice in." Harry laughed. I gave him a sarcastic smile and rubbed my sore butt. I positioned myself at the top of this tiny hill. Serioulsy it was practicly flat. I took in a deep breath and tried again. I was going well for about a minute or so, I heard Harry behind me cheering me on. And then just as I was almost at the bottum, a face planted. Snow isn't that cushioning when you get it at full speed.
"Ouch!" Harry boared down to me and helped me up. "That looked like it hurt." Thankfully he reserved this part of the mountian for just us, I didn't need reporters watching me. I can just see a picture of me with my face in the snow with the headline. "Princess Alexandria gives no hope in being a world leader when she can't even stand on her own."
I spat out a pice of snow, and whiped it from my face. "Ow..." Was all I could say.
"Ok, I think it bout time we get some lunch." I nodded in agreement, and followed him back to the lodge limping all the way.
The rest of the trip was unsucessfull in more ways then one. First I barley learned to stay up for more then 3 minutes, Harry wouldn't stop laughing at me, and everytime I thought that something would happen between us, it didn't! I think I just need to move on now, face the fact Alex, nothing is ever going to happen between us. He's a lost cause. And I bet there are alot of other guys out there that are perfectly fine, and willing to date me.
Yes, there are other fish in the sea! But none like him, and plus, Harry's a prince too! That would make things soo much eaiser on me and on both of us. We both have demanding scehduals, and wont have to give up the throan if we want to get married to a "commener" as they call the non royals. Ah! Ok, this is the end of this entry, I need to go make my self hate Harry!
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Well another month has gone by. I haven't had alot of time to write, I've been way too busy. First one of my cousins.. I think her name was Anna, got married, and I was one of the brides maids, witch makes no sence to me seeing as if I had never met her befor. But anways, We went over to Scottland for the ceremony, we stayed there for a week.
It is a very beautiful country. I even met this guy, he was some important guys son, his name was Patrick. Realy cute, he was 17. We hung out alot of the time. He even kissed me. It was amazeing, but the whole time I couldn't get my mind off Harry. How pathtic is that, I mean here I am with a realy hot, sweet guy that likes me, and all I can think about is Harry. He asked me out, but I had to turn him down.
Ok, I know what your thinking, wasn't I the one earlier telling my self to get over Harry. Well I was, but Pat lives in Whales, I tottaly can not deal with a lond distance realtionship, plus, what if when I got home, Harry said that he missed me, and never wanted to leave my side again.. OK well it's far fetched, but a girl can dream can't she?
Anyways, the next week was was my last week of summer. So I tried liveing it up as much as possible. I finaly got my liscens, and bought a car. Well more of an SUV. I have always wanted a Chevy Blazor, a gold one at that. And I finaly bought one! I drive every where now, It's kinda weird though. Back home where Iearned, it was on the right side of the road, now I have to change to the left. And I still catch my self going around to the other side thinking its the drivers seat.
I drive everywhere now, I never take the limo anymore. I feel that it attracts too many people. But I do have to have a flag attached to the back "so you can go and park anywhere you want" as my mom discribes. I realy don't care about good parking, but I guess I have to.
Me and Harry went to the beach again the other day, this time it was only us two. We had a great time, untill Harry thougt it would be funny to dunk me in the water with my clothes on..He's going to pay for that one!
Well now, here I am sitting in my dorm room, as they call it here at St. Kathrines. It's ok here, but all the girls are way to prepy for my taste. There is one girl who's pretty nice though. Brooke, the other girls mock her because the only reason she's here is that she was picked for the scholarship. So she's not ritch, and fir some reason the other girls don't like that.
We hang out anytime we get, but our schedual is very demading, we wake at 6, breakfeast is at 6:20, and then classes start at 6:50. They go untill 4:30, and then after that we have about 2 hours of "dorm work" as we call it. So realy we don't have much free time.
The school is in Leeds, England, witch is about 3 hours away from London. I haven't gone back home yet, I am starting to miss everyone. But I miss Kris and Lizzie even more.
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"Princess," Harry started, bowing slightly, lifting my hand and kissing it. "Always a pleasure!" I then half curtsied to acknowlage him.
We are both home from the weekend. "How is your new school working out for you?" He asked as they strolled through the gardens.
"I don't know, it's school, am I supossed to like it?" I answerd quickly.
"So, I take it it's not going to well.." He prosumed right.
"Well, lets see, out of 1000 girls there, I have one friend, count them, ONE friend!" I responded defensively, then began to walk faster to avoid the subject. Harry sighed slightly and quicked his own pace to keep up with me.
"Wow, that sucks, are you saying that no one likes you or something.." He winced at his horrible choice of words.
"No, i'm saying that they all like me, but only beacuse of who I am. They are always asking me questions like, 'Whats Harry like in person' or 'What's William like?' it's soo anoying, they don't care about me, they care that I know you."
"They realy ask about me?" He asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice. I nodded, he thought for moment, "Well what do you say to them?"
"I tell them that you pick your nose all the time, and you stutter!"I joked, then began to run since Harry was now chaseing me. He eventually caught up with me, put his arms around me and pulled me to the grass, that was still damp from the morning dew. He was now straddling me, and tickling me.
"Did you realy say that?" He demanded.
"N-noo!" I spat out between fits of laughter. He stopped tickling me, and let me sit up, but he was still holding me down.
"Then what did you say to them?" I took in a deep breath, and then responded.
"I told them that you were a amazeingi friend, a great listener, and an all arounf wonderful person." his face went serious.
"Realy.." Harry asked in disbelief,
"Yea, what, was I wrong?" I kidded. He was quite for a second.
"Well all that applies to you and more!" He then leaned in to me, this was it! I thought, he was finaly going to kiss me! My dreams are comeing true!
Yea, again I was wrong! He did kiss me, but on the forehead, then he got up and helped me up too. We then proceeded to the palace in silence.
"There you are!" mom said a little worried. "Where were you two?"
"We were just walking through the gardens.." I explained, I then grabbed Harry by the arm and said, "And now we are going up to my room!" I thus pulled him up to my room.
"What was that about.." Questioned Harry smoothing out this shirt sleeve where I was holding on.
"Nothig, It's just she would then start questioning us, and crap, and I realy don't want to deal with that right now." I lied. I was a little upset about the whole kiss thing, and was trying hard not to show it. But Harry saw right through it.
"Yea, ok.. somethings bothering you, whats the matter?"
"Nothing, I'm just irritated thats all.." Ok, good Alex, now you have to come up with a reason why you are aggitated. Ok think think!
"How come.." Why does he have to be such a good friend, and a great listener.. why can't he just stutter and pick his nose? Well he sat down on the couch located at the end of my bed, and waited for an answer.
"Because.." I paused.. then It came to me. "Because no one likes me-"
"What are you talking about, everyone loves you.." He interupted.. and he was wrong, he dosn't love me!
"No, they love Princess Alexandria, thats who they all want to be friends with, not Alex. Alex is boreing, no one cares that Alex was a strait A student, and came in 2 in the statewide gymnastics compatiton.." Ok, this is good!
"No one cares that I was lead in the school plays both freshmen and sophmore year! All they care about is that I'm a stupid princess, I have money, I live in a palace, and that I know you!" I got a little too into this, cuz after my speech, I had tears welling up in my eyes. All this was true, but I never realy tld anyone, and I tried not to let it get to me.
"Is all that true?" He asked, motioning for me to sit next to him.
"Oh, so i'm a liar now?" I accedently demanded.
"NO! I mean, no, just all that stuff is very cool! And no one realy knows that about you so they can't like you for it!" He's not the best at cheering people up.. hmm thats a fault I can talk about to anyone he asks!
"Well what am I going to do, go up to the next person I meet and say, "Hi, I'm Princess Alexandria, i'm not only royalty, but I'm A student who can act and is flexible?" He laughed slightly, but when he noticed the serious look on my face, he smartend up.
"Well, not in those words I guess.."
"Your not helping any!" i pouted like a stupid child.
"Well, the reason I like you isn't because of the Princess you, but because of who I met in the coffee shop. Someone who isn't all perfect, who falls down a few times, but isn't afraid to get back up and face another day. Don't let all the other girls at that stupid snob school let you think that you are nothing but a crown! You are a person, a beautiful, intellegent, talented.. and flexible person!"
I was shocked, I didn't know what to say. I seriously had tears in my eyes.. This would be the perfect time to kiss him, but like that would ever happen. I'm just his friend. But then again, haveing him as a friend could be way better then haveing him as a boy friend.. I know that it's crazy, but think about it, this way I never ahd to be scared to say something wrong, and to look at another guy.
So that was it, that was the time that I finaly accepted that I was only going to be friends with Harry, and nothing else, and I was tottaly ok with it! I was happy, Harry was my friend, we could talk about anything, he gave me great advice, and I can do the same for him... if he ever asks me that is.